If the Instagram app on your smartphone is acting strange, like not loading the feed properly, showing some error, and crashing sometimes, it's time to clear the app's cache data. Clearing the cache not only helps to solve common problems but also increases the performance of the app. In this article, we will explain how to clear the cache for Instagram on Android and iOS, as well as why it is necessary.

Clearing cache for Instagram is easier on Android than on iOS. All it takes is a couple of steps to get rid of all the unnecessary data, and you get to use the app as if you just installed it. That said, go through the steps below.

Android allows you to clear the cache of any app from the App Information section of Settings. Just follow these steps.

This will clear all cache data of the app. Some steps may differ for different Android devices due to your OS shell, but the overall process should be more or less the same.